George "Junior Republic" Honors Thurgood Marshall
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January 27, 1955

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PRESS RELEASE ® e NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND 107 WEST 43 STREET * NEW YORK 36, N. Y. © JUdson 6-8397 THURGOOD MARSHALL Director and Counsel ROBERT L. CARTER Assistant Counsel ARNOLD DE MILLE Press Relations ARTHUR B. SPINGARN President WALTER WHITE Secretary ALLAN KNIGHT CHALMERS Vv Treasurer GEORGE "JUNIOR REPUBLIC” HONORS THURGOOD MARSHALL January 27, 1955 NEW YORK.--Thurgood Marshall, Director-Counsel of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, shared honors with Chief Justice Earl Warren and Vice-President Richard Nixon, in receiving the annual Honorary Citizenship - Distinguished Service Awards from the George ‘Junior Republic", last Monday. Chief Justice Warren, Vice-President Nixon and Mr. Marshall were honored for having "done the most to help preserve democracy for America's youth,” Mr, Marshall was cited by the George "Junior Republic" for his outstanding work in civil rights at a dinner at the Westbury Hotel. The George "Junior Republic" is a youth community where young people below voting age are entrusted with the responsibilities and privileges of citizenship, Teen-age citizens learn the basic princi- ples of democracy by actually running their own government in its executive, legislative and judicial functions through their own elec- ted and appointed officials, Others who have received Distinguished Cit izenship awards in past years are: The Honorable Thomas E, Dewey, Henry Ford II, Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby, Honorable Herbert Hoover, Judge David Pine, Ambassador Warren R, Austin, Judge Harold R. Medina and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, =30=